Join us for Episode 23 of the Reagan RedZone with Kevin Stipe, Harrison Brooks, and Webb Milward. In this episode, &quot;Dog Days and Dead Cats,&quot; they discuss the outlook for public broker valuations, the newly-released top 100 broker list, and how firms can navigate leadership perpetuation with the next generation.

Episode 23 - Dog Days and Dead Cats

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Welcome back to The Reagan RedZone. I'm your host, Webb Milward. Joining me today are my partners Kevin Stipe and Harrison Brooks. Guys, good morning. Good morning, Webb. Fellas, we are exactly at the midway point of the year, coming to you here in mid-July. For those listening, I hope you're having a wonderful summer. I hope you're tuning into The RedZone in a beach chair or on a porch looking out over a lake.

But hope everyone's having a wonderful summer. If you are on vacation, here's what you missed this week. The latest Business Insurance Top 100 list came out earlier this week. For many of us, and I know for me particularly, the release of the list is sort of like Selection Sunday for March Madness. Everyone goes and looks at their name, looks at their position on the list, have they moved up or down.

But frankly, what's most interesting to me is the stories behind the rankings. And as I looked at the new rankings, what really struck me was so many of the top brokers, especially in that top 10 or 15, are in a state of transition. Right?

If you think about it, they are digesting and integrating large acquisitions. They're working on a significant change to their capital structure. Overall, look, they're consumed by integration, capital events, and overall kind of complex transformation initiatives. Right?

What does that look like? It looks like technology and AI adoption, talent movement, and trying to continue to build out their teams. Frankly, driving growth through a soft market for the first time in almost a decade, and the pressure around revenue.

Episode 23 - Dog Days and Dead Cats

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The candid version is on a podcast,
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Episode 23 - Dog Days and Dead Cats

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.